It is symptomatic of the national condition of the United States that the worst humiliation ever suffered by it as a nation, and by a US president personally, passed almost without comment last week. I refer to the November 20 announcement at a summit meeting in Phnom Penh that 15 Asian nations, comprising half the world's population, would form a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership excluding the United States.

President Barack Obama attended the summit to sell a US-based Trans-Pacific Partnership excluding China. He didn't. The American led-partnership became a party to which no-one came.

Instead, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, plus China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, will form a club and leave out the United States. As 3 billion Asians become prosperous, interest fades in the prospective contribution of 300 million Americans - especially when those Americans decline to take risks on new technologies. America's great economic strength, namely its capacity to innovate, exists mainly in memory four years after the 2008 economic crisis...

Years from now, people will look back at this time period and it will all seem so stark — so obvious. But, at least officially, we don’t see any of it. Everything is good. Economy going great. President very popular. Everything under control. Not a cloud in the sky, eh?

Instead, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, plus China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, will form a club and leave out the United States.

Why shouldn't they? The US today has a toxic, obscene, sex obsessed culture. It has become an untrustworthy ally and an impotent foe. We borrow money we have no intention of ever paying off and we just elected baracka claus as our president.

I wouldn't invite America to join my club either.

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posted on 12/05/2012 12:45:58 PM PST
by pgkdan
(We are witnessing the modern sack of Rome. The barbarians have taken over.)

We have leadership that promotes the idea that innovation and success needs to be limited, controlled and punished. Leadership prefers that mediocrity rules the day and anyone who wants to go beyond it are put in their place and punished. Society chose BHO and Society chose class envy over wanting to improve life for those who are not well off.

This is a HUGE story. Obama not only fails in the PAcific, but the course for China’s rise to replace America in the Pacific has been charted , and thats a fact.

Our surrender monkey POSHITUS has yet agaion presided over a military and economic retreat from our former allies. This I and other predicted , once the woprld saw the betrayal Obama perpetrated, of US allies Libya and Egypt.Upon seeing that betrayal by Obama, Asian nations undestandably did not want THAT fox in their chicken coups,
all of which have Muslim populations.Themessage was sent loudly and cl;early, EFF OBAMA!

Are my observation correct? I've noticed that other world leaders, other than Muslims who obozo gives our money to, routinely shun our jackass n chief. My sense; they know he is illegitimate and are likely afraid that doing business with him will affect their countries future relationship with the US.

The question is if there will be an actual President that will stand up to those countries? That is, someone willing to instill a sense of fear in Third World nations - instead of someone too willing to be subservient to them?

If it means that the US causes some offense to these countries as a result, fine. It’s not the job of the US to please the persistently unwilling.

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posted on 12/05/2012 2:09:27 PM PST
by setha
(It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away from it.)

The US still has the PRC by the short hairs, and should have them for quite a while longer.

If they want to try playing hardball, it will not go well with the public - for any public official going along with China would end up losing an election.

Now if Nixon hadn’t opened the dialogue with China in the first place, or had the US decided to use Tiananmen Square as an opportunity to replace a (still) despotic regime, the problem wouldn’t be as bad as it is now. However, the US decided on appeasement and this is the consequence.

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posted on 12/05/2012 2:29:40 PM PST
by setha
(It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)

ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF)
The ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) is a key forum for security dialogue in Asia. It draws together 27 countries which have a bearing on the security of the Asia Pacific region.

Background to the ASEAN Regional Forum
The ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) was established in 1994. It comprises 27 countries the 10 ASEAN member states (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) the 10 ASEAN dialogue partners (Australia, Canada, China, the EU, India, Japan, New Zealand, ROK, Russia and the United States), one ASEAN observer (PNG) as well as the DPRK, Mongolia, Pakistan, Timor-Leste, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

The ARF is a key forum for security dialogue in Asia, complementing the various bilateral alliances and dialogues. It provides a setting in which members can discuss current regional security issues and develop cooperative measures to enhance peace and security in the region.

“America’s great economic strength, namely its capacity to innovate, exists mainly in memory four years after the 2008 economic crisis...”

Huh? What is this moron talking about?

Globally, Google Android has a 61% share of the global smartphone market and Apple has a 20% share. Android has a 53% share of the American smartphone market, while Apple iPhone controls 24%. Korea’s Samsung is making a play for the low-cost cell phone market in Asia, but it will take a huge hit as new Asian players are about to offer better deals. Furthermore, Apple has inked a deal with China Mobile and its 700 million subscribers to probably offer a cheap iPhone.

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